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The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city (1912)

Henderson, Helen Weston, 1874- · Boston : L. C. Page & Company · leaf 270

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